#50
March
Hoodoo Gurus
Stoneage Romeos
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
(Let’s All) Turn On
(Let’s All) Turn On
I Want You Back
Leilani
Tojo
I Was a Kamikaze Pilot
Just when I lament the serious lack of interesting or valuable music in the calendar year I’m triple shotted with excellence.
The purpose of the project in the beginning to fill in the gaps of my musical youth. What did I miss because a child’s/teen’s access is based on limited resources. So went the Gurus into the bin of “I knew the name but didn’t have a clue who they were” and Eric didn’t have their records.
This is an example of using all the techniques of the 80s, melding it perfectly with the 60s Zombies sound and updating it for the 80s college set. If The Replacements sounded more like this I would have given them higher marks. These are the kind of songs I expected from The Flesh Tones but didn’t get. Nor the production, which betters the offerings by both those bands.
There’s even a hint of The Vapors on the excellent, “Tojo”. That thrills me.
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